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Labourlist (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Housing Minister John Healey has today urged every homeowner, developer, tenant and landlord to join a "national crusade" to reduce excessive carbon emissions leaking from their homes and businesses - just a few weeks ahead of the climate change summit in Copenhagen . Mr Healey has just finished a speech to the IPPR , in which he said everyone...
Labour Matters (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
This is the full text of the speech to the Labour Party Annual Conference today by John Healey MP, Minister of State for Housing: So Conference, we've heard from the people on the panel. Powerful words about the ways that we – your Labour government – are acting to offer real help through tough times in recession. Help for firms to stay in business. Help for people to stay...
Labour.org.uk (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Labour's Minister of State for Housing, John Healey's speech to the 2009 Labour Party Annual Conference So Conference, we’ve heard from the people on the panel. Powerful words about the ways that we – your Labour government – are acting to offer real help through tough times in recession. Help for firms to stay in business. Help for people to stay in work. Help for families...
CN plus Housing RSS (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Housing minister John Healey has this week written to all council leaders across England asking them to submit bids for some £180 million worth of investment, which he claimed could be used to build as many as 1,200 new council homes.
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
A £450m funding package to restart work on more than 150 stalled housing developments will be announced today by John Healey, housing minister, with the aim of...
workinproperty (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
The government has allocated £388million to ensure 115 private sector housing projects in England which have stalled during the downturn can be completed. Housing minister John Healey described the Kickstart scheme as a "rapid response to the recession".The government says it will mean 11,000 homes are built and 9,500 jobs saved. Mr Healey said: "With this...
John's Labour blog (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
... The word g errymandering suddenly comes to mind for some strange reason? Labour Housing Minister John Healey wants to take on Tories at next election over housing issues and challenges them to a live TV debate. There should be “ clear red water” between Labour and Tories on this issue. There is outrage by tenant groups over the suggestion by the regulator TSA that lifelong...
Friends of the Earth (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
... be unveiled to MPs at a launch in Westminster today, which will be addressed by Housing Minister John Healey.The coalition, which has been brought together by Friends of the Earth and the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA), has made detailed suggestions for improving the planning process by making it fairer and ensuring that it plays its part in slashing carbon emissions...
Conservengland (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
... to make their case, and may even (if we’re lucky) hold some of its sessions in public. But John Healey, the Housing Minister, rather let the cat out of the bag when he said that ministers crave a “more efficient and predictable” planning system. Yes, I bet it will be predictable!” Broad-based opposition to the nascent IPC began back in 2007. Initially called...
Jon Slattery (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Regional newspapers face a new blow with the possible loss of statutory ads from local authorities giving details of planning notices. Now the Newspaper Society is to meet Housing Minister John Healey to discuss planning notices and local authority publications as a consultation on publicising planning applications draws to a close. In the summer, the NS wrote to Minister for Local Government...
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
... move follows on from the national Mortgage Help campaign launched last month.Housing Minister John Healey said: "The worst thing anyone facing money worries can do is bury their head in the sand."We've seen recent drops in the numbers of repossessions - but I know the threat will remain high throughout next year and I want people to have the help they need. "Over 300,000 people have...
Theo's blog (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Camden Labour last week at Labour Conference in Brighton Camden Labour activists were out in Brighton last week, as reported in the Camden New Journal . Party Conference for us is a time when we lobby for Camden issues, not play political stunts, so we used the opportunity to lobby housing minister John Healey about his plans to reform housing finance so that local tenants could see...
John's Labour blog (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
I think that last week’s public housing news was dominated by the Labour Party conference. I will admit in advance that I will be drawn by issues I came across as a delegate. Labour Investment v. Tory Cuts Housing minister John Healey at a conference fringe event on Tuesday challenges the view that any new government elected next year would have to slash spending on public housing....
Louise Baldock (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
Liam and I were delighted to welcome Housing Minister, John Healey to Kensington Square a few weeks ago. Kensington Square is a new housing development, built through a Labour government funded HMRI programme. Phase 1 has been completed - new houses and apartments in a mixed development, Riverside Housing Association has rented some out, others are available for sale. Some for shared...
bitsnpieces (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
... being set up to boost business in areas crippled by the collapse of coalmining. Housing Minister John Healey has announced plans to set up a Coalfields Growth Fund to support new and growing small businesses in former coalfield areas. Places Up For Grabs On American Enterprise Programme Aspiring Scottish entrepreneurs are invited to enter a competition offering subsidised places at...
